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New details undermine Pence’s supposed ‘hero’ turn on Jan. 6
By Aaron Blake

The narrative wrote itself. Then-Vice President Mike Pence, who had loyally and often obsequiously stuck by President Donald Trump through thick and thin, suddenly bucked him when his presidency was on the line. Trump wanted Pence to help overturn the results of the electoral college vote on Jan. 6, but Pence refused — even as rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol called for his hanging — all while professing to do so out of principle and loyalty to the Constitution.

He was hailed even by some of the administration’s critics as an unlikely hero, the savior of the republic and more.

The reality, we’re now finding out, is far from so neat and tidy. It appears less as though Pence said “enough is enough,” and more as though he really entertained doing Trump’s bidding but found that he had no actual authority to make it happen.

Tuesday brought the first big drop from an upcoming book by The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa called “Peril.” The big headline is that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley so feared that Trump would spark a military confrontation with China that Milley made secret calls to his counterpart in Beijing to assure them that the United States would not strike.

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